Killers of the Flower Moon

Hale, Oct. 1926, NARA-FW. “truly a valley”: Tulsa Daily World, Aug. 19, 1926. “his hands folded”: G ...

“They got Rita”: Report by Frank Smith, James Alexander Street, Burger, and J. V. Murphy, Sept. 1, 1925, FBI. ...

the FBI, see Gentry’s J. Edgar Hoover; Ungar’s FBI; Powers’s Secrecy and Power; and Burrough’s Public Enemies. ...

“Pistol and rifle”: Personnel file of Smith, Aug. 13, 1932, FBI/FOIA. “the older type”: Personnel file of ...

“If he is not”: Report by Weiss and Burger, Aug. 16, 1924, FBI. 11: THE THIRD MAN “I do not understand”: Hoo ...

“Truth to tell”: Austin Weekly Statesman, Nov. 22, 1894. “hung by the neck”: Austin Weekly Statesman, Nov. 16 ...

14: DYING WORDS “If Bill Smith”: Grand jury testimony of David Shoun, NARA-FW. “often leave”: Ibid. “If she say ...

16: FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE BUREAU “many new angles”: Edwin Brown to Hoover, March 22, 1926, FBI/FOIA. “a cro ...

Territory Posse of Oklahoma Westerners 2, no. 1 (June 1968). “on the level”: White to Grove, June 23, 1959, ...

“too much Jew”: Report by Weiss and Burger, April 30, 1924, FBI. “Blackie, have”: Grand jury testimony ...

FW. “When you’re up”: Quoted in Irwin, Deadly Times, 331. “Townspeople”: Lima News, Jan. 29, 1926. “not o ...

“high-handed and unusual”: Leahy memorandum, clemency records, NARA-CP. “nerve went”: White to Hoover, June ...

“the veteran of legal battles”: Tulsa Tribune, July 29, 1926. “Hale said to me”: Tulsa Daily World, ...

21: THE HOT HOUSE “How do you raise”: Adams, Tom White, 84. “ugly, dangerous”: Rudensky, Gonif, 32. “Warden White sh ...

“We do not have to”: White to Hoover, July 1, 1938, FBI/FOIA. “appreciate a personal”: Special Agent in Ch ...

23: A CASE NOT CLOSED “PAWHUSKA MAN’S”: Daily Oklahoman, July 2, 1923. “sufficient evidence”: Report by Smith, ...

“GREWSOME FIND ENDS”: Quoted in “The Murder of Mary Denoya-Bellieu-Lewis,” PPL. 26: BLOOD CRIES OUT “knew ...

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Ackerman, Kenneth D. Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the Assault on Civil Liberties ...

Crime of the Century. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2008. Boatright, Mody C., and William A. Owens. Tales fr ...

Cox, James. Historical and Biographical Record of the Cattle Industry and the Cattlemen of Texas and Adjacent ...